Some positions speak for themselves and subject to injury should make the first test in Brisbane. A few boulters in Cunningham South, Cowan Dickie and Feyi. Captain is a call mine is Itoje
15 Kinghorn, 14 Feyi Waboso 13 Aki 12 Henshaw/Hugh Jones 11 VDM
10 Russell 9 G Park
8 Doris 7 VDF 6 Cunningham South 5 Otoje (captain) 4 McCarthy 3 Fagerson 2 Cowan Dickie 1 Porter
Replacements 16 Sheehan 17 Genge 18 Furlong 19 Beirne 20 Earl 21 Mitchell 22 M Smith 23 Tuipulotu
The Independent’s predicted Lions 23 for first Test
Starting XV: 1 Pierre Schoeman, 2 Dan Sheehan, 3 Tadhg Furlong; 4 Maro Itoje, 5 Joe McCarthy; 6 Tadhg Beirne, 7 Ben Earl, 8 Caelan Doris (capt.); 9 Jamison Gibson-Park, 10 Finn Russell; 11 James Lowe, 12 Sione Tuipulotu, 13 Garry Ringrose, 14 Blair Kinghorn; 15 Hugo Keenan
Replacements: 16 Dewi Lake, 17 Andrew Porter, 18 Zander Fagerson, 19 George Martin, 20 Josh van der Flier; 21 Tomos Williams, 22 Marcus Smith, 23 Bundee Aki